Cambodia’s Prime Minister has placed a temporarily ban on sending domestic workers to Malaysia in a bid to stop violence against workers in the female-dominated industry, according to the ABC Radio Australia News. Prime Minister Hun Sen signed the order after numerous campaigns by human rights groups, focusing on the ill-treatment of maids sent to [...]

Hong Kong’s High Court has ruled that a domestic helper from the Philippines should be allowed to apply for permanent residency in the city. The case was brought by Evangeline Banao Vallejos, who has lived in Hong Kong since 1986. The ruling follows a landmark judicial review and could lead to more than 100,000 other [...]

BANGALORE: Those women who help you breathe easy during the busy morning hours will now be able to claim more benefits. The government will soon include domestic workers in the health insurance scheme it is introducing for labourers from the unorganised sectors. The scheme initially planned for labourers like construction workers will be extended to [...]

Indonesian maids overseas will soon get a pay raise if a state-sponsored agency successfully negotiates an increase in their minimum salaries with governments abroad. The National Board for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers (BNP2TKI), is focusing on wages in the Asia Pacific region and Middle East, a top official said Wednesday September [...]

With news outlets scrambling to cover the latest stories about Indonesian migrant workers abroad, from a beheading in Saudi Arabia to the latest roundup of illegals in Malaysia, the well-being of local household workers is usually ignored. Experts say that maids and nannies in Jakarta face many of the same issues of abuse as workers [...]

More domestic workers in the country will suffer mistreatment unless the government and the House of Representatives counterparts pass a law on domestic workers protection, activists say. Many female domestic workers, including women and girls, were living and working under poor conditions, where they were being exploited economically and suffering physical, psychological and sexual violence [...]

On 15 February 2011 the death of 14-year old domestic worker Sunarsih ten years ago in Indonesia will be commemorated by women workers, migrant and local domestic workers, women’s rights advocates and labour support groups all over Asia. Committee for Asian Women (CAW) joins JALA PRT, TUNAS MULIA and all domestic workers organisations in Indonesia [...]

The rising number of abuse cases of Indonesian migrant workers has sparked heated debate over whether the government should stop exporting housemaids. However, job seekers here are apparently still looking for the silver lining in every dark cloud of working overseas. Nuryati, a lecturer at Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University’s School of Law in Serang, Banten, [...]

A court in the Saudi city of Medina has sentenced a woman to three years in jail for the severe physical abuse of her Indonesian maid. Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa, 23, was admitted to hospital in November with broken bones and burns to her face and body. The case received worldwide attention, and prompted the [...]

The National Advisory Council headed by Sonia Gandhi today suggested to the government to bring domestic workers under the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplace.   Voicing concern over the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of the Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace [...]